Quotes About Time

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

There's a sort of jet lag when you time-travel to your own past.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

CALVIN: Our country was founded a very long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C. TEACHER: (Glowering): 200 B.C.? CALVIN: Before Calvin. CALVIN: (Now sitting in the corner, wearing a dunce cap) That's what's IMPORTANT!

If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches...

We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, as we rush down the long tunnel of time- the biker, of course, drunk on the wind, but also the man reading by a fire...

perhaps the answer is simply one: one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet, a small jazz combo working in the background. She sways like a branch in the wind, her beautiful eyes closed, and the tall thin bassist leans over to glance at his watch because she has been dancing forever, and now it is very late, even for musicians.

It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead.

It's overwhelming to think of all the things I'm not doing today, including being born." (106) from "April 21st

And the past and the future? Nothing but an only child with two different masks.

We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world

New Calendar The poem of next year every week a line, every month a stanza, and a tiny sun rising and setting in every numbered square.

Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

So before we end and then begin We'll drink a toast to how it's been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say I've loved these days

And in the evening After the fire and the light One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light Time is relentless And as the past disappears We're on the verge of all things new